In a challenging economic climate, the name of the game is lowering costs and doing more with less. In our personal lives, we postpone or forego purchases that we do not deem absolutely necessary. In our business lives, we look for ways to do things more efficiently. We cut costs from day-to-day operations and take steps to increase the productivity and value of resources...Posted August 18, 2009

In general, text analysis refers to the process of extracting interesting and non-trivial information and knowledge from unstructured text. Text analysis differs from traditional search in that, whereas search requires a user to know what he or she is looking for, text analysis attempts to discover information in a pattern that is not known beforehand (through the use of advanced techniques such as pattern recognition, natural language processing, machine learning and so on). By focusing on patterns and characteristics, text analysis can produce better search results and deeper data analysis, thereby providing quick retrieval of information that otherwise would remain hidden.Text analysis is particularly interesting in areas where users must discover new information, such as in criminal investigations, legal discovery and when performing due-diligence investigations. Such investigations require 100% recall; i.e., users cannot afford to miss any relevant information....Posted June 01, 2009

Publishing this list is the most difficult project KMWorld undertakes every year, and I've been heading the effort since it began in 2000. Our somewhat informal judging process taps the individual and collective wisdom of colleagues, analysts, system integrators and even a selected group of users...Posted March 01, 2009

KMWorld magazine recently hosted a roundtable discussion that focused on e-discovery. We reproduce the conversation here because of its uniquely comprehensive view of e-discovery, from the nitty-gritty details to the overall impact...Posted February 02, 2009

Imagine: Company A and Company B each receive notice of litigation and are given 100 days to pull together all documents deemed relevant to the cases being brought against them. Both will undergo the process of e-discovery...Posted February 02, 2009

With the implementation of FRE 502, the use of advanced analytical software such as concept searching in your review platform becomes an important tool in preventing inadvertent waiver of privilege. Concept searching can also play a critical role...Posted February 02, 2009

Interest in electronic discovery within many organizations has risen in the past four years. One telling data point is the relative rise in search queries on Google for the term "ediscovery". A report from Google Insights for Search shows a spike...Posted February 02, 2009

Managing legal holds requires an organization to make the same commitment to quality improvement that it applies to any of its business practices, whether it's customer care, manufacturing or inventory management...Posted February 02, 2009

The risks and costs for corporations faced with requests for electronic discovery have never been higher. These realities are forcing most corporate counsel to look for alternatives to the model of outsourcing the management and execution...Posted February 02, 2009

Whether shopping online, browsing the corporate intranet or conducting legal research, end users typically call upon a search engine for one of three reasons: to find, discover or explore information. When it comes to carrying out discovery work...Posted February 02, 2009

Let's say you are CIO/head of legal technology/technical staff. You've just finished getting your company's electronically stored information (ESI) ready for discovery, and are reviewing the costs of the project. One thing's certain: the bill...Posted February 02, 2009

In many instances, when in-house legal professionals require advanced searching capabilities for e-discovery and legal activities, they often default to in-house variants of common Web search tools. However, Web search tools are not optimized...Posted February 02, 2009

In the mid-1960s, the term "email" was simply a way to transfer electronic information from one user's directory to another on the same computer. In the 1970s, email as we now know it evolved through the development of standards...Posted February 02, 2009

In some ways, we were way ahead of the curve. We've been talking on these pages about the challenges of locating, retrieving, indexing and presenting electronic information in the event of litigation—also known as "e-discovery"...Posted February 02, 2009

Five years ago, the importance of email archiving was just starting to capture the attention of IT organizations. The combination of soaring volumes of email, along with a growing awareness of the legal sensitivity of email, prompted many organizations to reconsider how email records were being managed...Posted November 01, 2008

Access to information in active and archived emails is critical. Email, in its purest definition, is a store-and-forward method of writing, sending, receiving and saving messages over electronic communication systems (Wikipedia)...Posted September 29, 2008